Host Groups

By creating host groups, you can customize your views of virtual machine hosts and the virtual machines deployed on them. Host groups also can be used to adjust the amount of resources reserved for the host operating system on different hosts and to make hosts available for users through virtual machine self-service.

In This Section

  • About Host Groups
    Introduces host groups and describes the roles host groups can perform in Virtual Machine Manager.
  • How to Create a Host Group
    Provides a procedure for creating a new host group, adding hosts to the host group, and setting the host group's properties.
  • How to Modify the Properties of a Host Group
    Provides a procedure for modifying the properties of a host group to add a host group description, reset the resources reserved for host operating systems, and create self-service policies for users.

See Also

Concepts

About Virtual Machine Self-Service
Hosts